'98 CELEBRATION AT WELLINGTON

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 8, 24 June 1898, Page 19

'98 CELEBRATION AT WELLINGTON

Tiie centenary of the celebration of '«H is to be celebrated at Wellington on June 21th, by ,vi entertainment which is t 0 be held in the Opera House. A ropy of the programme to be presented on the occasion rea< lied us just a-, we were about to go t » pies-, and a glance at it sufficed to show that the Irishmen ot Welhn-ton will not be behind hand in the worthy eel bration of the glonous !)s. A most attractive t election of National music is to be "rendered by some of the leading mu-ieians of Wellington, and an orchestra under the conductoi ship of Mr. S Chni'io. Af. ature of thj oveiiings proceeding-,, howev.r. will be ad.livws eldivcred by DrVahill anl Sir Robert Stout. The former Ins che-sou iur'his -u'ijj t ' lhe History of the cati-es winch led t) the lehoilion.' and the latter ' The llebollie n and the lesion it teaches. \h e utterances ot two such proa i.ient men as Dr. Cahiil and i-ir Robert on the\u!>je-t of the liish rebellion should alone mtllce to hll the Ope-a H nisc on the night of the 24 th.